Handle for wire-rimmed articles



(No Model.)

D. SHERWOOD. HANDLE PoR WIRE RIMMED ARTICLES. PILL-259,056.

Patented June 6, 1882.

Bm ,mk iw jWmeJssaa UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL SHERWOOD, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

HANDLE FOR wlRE- RIMMED ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,056, dated June 6, 1882.

Application iiled'April 12, 1882. (No model.) Y

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, DANIEL SHERWOOD, of the city of Lowell, county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Handle for WireRimmed Articles, of which the following isa specification.

My device relates to wire articles having a handle and a wire around the upper rimsuch as handled strainers, small dippers, and

other articles-and its objects are to provide a wire handle of great strength and stiffness, and of sufcient size to be readily grasped by the hand. I accomplish this object by the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, in whichy .Figure 1 represents a plan, and Fig. Zaside view.

A is the wire forming the rim of the article or holding its upper edge into form. This rim is formed ofthe bight or Iniddle portion ofthe wire A, which is brought together at a and twisted into a stock or center post, a?. This stock, however, when unsupported, has neither the stiffness nor, by itself, the size necessary to make a good and useful handle. I therefore connect with it the wire B, which is looped to form the outer end ot` the handle, and has its inner ends, b b, clasped around themwire A at point e, a short distance from the point @awhile the ends t3 of the Wire A are carried out at right angles to the center post, a2, and clasped around the wire B at point c, after which, being dipped into the bath of melted tin, all places of juncture are firmly united. When at any time thereafter the handle is subject to flexnre sidewise the tendency ot' such eXure will be to change the nohmal distances between the pointe on one side of the stock and the point c on the other; but as the distance between the point a and the point c is small the wire yielding, as will be thc parts a3, because of their limited length, so that the united parts act together as a truss, thus giving a much greater strength to resist ilexure than would be the ease if merely the aggregate of resistance of the separate wires to i'lexure was obtained. When subject to tlexure in a perpendicular direction the ends a3 act as a fulcrum to support the lniddle portion ot' the wire B, and prevent any twisting of the ends b on the wire A, where they are clasped together, so that in all directions exure will be greatly resisted and a strong and durable handle of very little weight of metal will be formed, which has uo seams or openings in which dirt can nd a place of deposit, and is especially adapted to all forms of utensils which have their upper rim partly formed of or supported by a strong wire, such as handled strainers, dippers, skimmcrs, egg-beaters, Snc.

What I claim as new and of my invention Is l. The combination of the rim-wire A, having its two parts twisted together at c2 and separated into the two parts c3, which are extended at right angles to the twisted portion and clasped around the strengthening-wire B, with such wire B bent to form a loop, and having its `ends b b clasped around the wire A near the twisted portion, substantially as de scribed.

2. A handle for articles having a wire-sup ported rim formed ot' portions of such wire twisted together and extending out from such rim a part of the length of such handle and then separated to form supports to a wireloop whose ends are clasped to the rim portion of such rim-wire, and which .forms part of the handle, substantial] y as described.

v DANIEL SHERVVOOD.

Witnesses:

E. P. Woons, LEPINE C. RICE. 

